The Heavy Metal & Rock Thread

This is a discussion on The Heavy Metal & Rock Thread within Shifting gears, part of the Around the Corner category; Originally Posted by Impala59
Freddie Mercury! What a perfomer!! Proud to say he was an Indian
Freddy Mercury. Farokh Balsara. ...

I discovered Metal somewhere around the 9th grade! Then slowly started listening to older bands and so on.

Dio! \m/ I regard him as the BEST vocalist of all time! Heard all his songs while he was in Sabbath, as well as his own band! Holy Diver is a magical album. Its really sad that we lost him a few years back to cancer.May his soul RIP

Deep Purple were an amazing band, thanks to Mr. Blackmore. I think they deserved much much more attention than Led Zeppelin. I like Zeppelin, however always feel DP were much better than them

Judas Priest. I don't even have to say anything! \m/ Halford and his magical voice

FINTAIL:
Yes! I have read about his childhood and everything! DPC seems to be an amazing place Its a real shame he never performed here and that we could never see him live! Too sad.

Ampere:I discovered Metal somewhere around the 9th grade! Then slowly started listening to older bands and so on.

I must be one of the oldest guy to discover metal. In second year engineering, seniors were playing "we dont need no education" and I asked naively whats that song. That was the beginning of my journey. I grew to a lot of radio. So metal as much less. It was always some odd cassette here and there. Serious interest started after second year in college. But thankfully later, I went to the extent to get to know a band fully and getting all their works.

The best in realisation was Maiden. My first album was Rock in Rio and I liked it very much not knowing what was Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind. Then I started discovering mutiple shades of each of these guys including Bruce's solo career. Its been fun. Similarly not to mention the synthesised leanings in Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of Seventh Son. In my opinion Alexander the Great is the best closing song of any album. Truly an epic.

The song Paschendale from Dance of Death made me realise they still have the fire.

I think Maiden is one of the very few bands who have actually stuck to their roots unlike Metallica and Megadeth. Metallica long back converted to Hard Rock and Megadeth, well they just don't have the fire and agression anymore.

Its just sad that Maiden visited India multiple times and I hadn't discovered them till then. Hate myself for it. Want to see them live SO BADLY!

Just chiming in. British Death Metal legends Carcass will be playing at the 2-day metal festival BIG69 at Mumbai on 17th & 18th January. More on the lineup are British prog heavyweights SikTh, Italian tech-death masters Fleshgod Apocalypse & British rap-metal band Hacktavist. The Indian bands on the bill include Demonic Resurrection, Undying Inc, Kryptos, Zygnema, Albatross, Devoid, Inner Sanctum, Providence, Noiseware, Gutslit, Plague Throat & more. More information on http://big69.in. This is going to be one mad gig!

I just happened to watch the video of a song called Take Back The Fear by the band Hail The Villain, on Nat Geo Music. I really liked the song. Check it out. I am sure that video is available on YouTube.

I just happened to watch the video of a song called Take Back The Fear by the band Hail The Villain, on Nat Geo Music. I really liked the song. Check it out. I am sure that video is available on YouTube.

Talking of metal and the likes - i stumbled on Bevar Sea a few months back and boy they are indeed interesting to listen to. I am not too much into metal excepting for old school ones. More of a rock, 60s - 70s era and more of blues.
Is there a blues thread at all ?

When I was in college I had a general awareness of genres in metal, etc. I was just listening to the GNR, Metallica, pink Floyd in those days.
After getting the job, I had more time to explore and slowly I was losing touch with my pals so it happened that I was digging things out myself – in isolation. So in about 2 years I got hooked to thrash metal. The German thrash was my favorite – Kreator, Sodom. And then music evolved in my head, I wanted a new taste, ear drums needed some pounding. Another 2 years down the line I was listening to melodic death metal – amon amarth, arch enemy, kalmah, opeth, cradle of filth,in flames. Some black metal and other variants as well – dimmu borgir, cob

And then I got married. In the months before marriage I was exploring radiohead and now i cant let go of it. Not a day goes by without listening to it.

How many of you have seen this reversal – going from thrash to death and then pacing down to existential soulful rock like radiohead ?